Integrated Curriculum: c. Explain how your Unit Development will be integrated with other subjects.
Science: ·Children observe the water evaporating from a glass jar and the residue left behind. ·Children observe water boiling. ·Children work with ice – freezing in different shapes and melting it. ·Children paint on a blackboard with wet brushes, sponges and rags. Children make wet footprints on a dry footpath. English: ·Read different picture books regarding rain or water. Eg, Rain by Peter Spier. ·Learn songs such as – ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’, ‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’, and ‘Rain, Rain Go Away’. ·Learn rhymes/chants such as – ‘Pitter, Patter’, ‘I’m a little teapot’, and ‘Little Raindrops’. ·Children taste different states of water – cold, warm, ice, etc and describe what it is like. ·Children listen carefully and role play a water sport as they move to and from group times.
Health & Physical Education: ·Children make popsicles with fresh fruit juice. ·Play the game ‘Musical Puddles’. ·Play the game ‘Jump the Creek’. ·Investigate how much water a human should drink in a day. The Arts – Art, Music and Drama: ·Dress up day. Students come dressed in rainy day clothes and bring a gold coin donation. Money raised can go to a drought relief fund. ·Children create a rain and cloud collage. ·Design a poster encouraging people to save water, eg: take a short shower. ·Students make raindrops and then hang them around the room. ·Children make boats from paper, wood, leaves, shells, matchboxes, etc. ·Children dramatise a rainstorm. ·Children draw a dry landscape with coloured chalk and then decorate the page with drops of water from an eye dropper or squeeze bottle.
Mathematics: ·Students draw a plan to build canals, bridges, dams, a car wash, fire stations and houses. Then students construct them using blocks. ·Measure the rainfall in a transparent tube or gauge over a certain period of time. ·Put out a water trough for children to experiment with pouring and measuring volume. ·Students take home a survey, regarding water use and saving in the home. Parents help fill it out and students bring back to class, to graph and compare results. ·Adding and subtracting buckets of water. Eg, it rains and I fill 5 buckets of water, I use 2 buckets when I shower, how many left? Students will draw and find result of 3.
These are extra ideas for teachers to intergrate the topic of water into other areas of the curriculum:
The Arts: paint pictures, view or present performances or sing songs that convey the water conservation message
English: read articles or debate water related issues in your local area, or write stories about the role that water plays in your life
Health & Physical Education: discuss how water quality and quantity can impact the health of the individual and community relations; investigate the functions of the local water authority
Languages Other Than English: investigate the role that water plays in various cultures
Mathematics: apply mathematical inquiry and techniques to measure rainfall in your local area, carry out a water audit at your school, or understand the amount of water used in your local region; get students to monitor water use at home - read the meter daily, determine how much water is used per person in the household and set percentages for improvement - most improved could win a prize at the end of a month / term / year
Science: study the water cycle, test water quality in your local area, understand the importance of water for life and how plants and animals adapt to different water conditions.
Studies of Society and Environment: investigate the land use within the local region, the impacts these have on water conditions and usage, and how these have changed over time
Technology: investigate the development of water supply and water treatment in your local area, and how these technologies consider the environment and society in order to support economic growth.
c. Explain how your Unit Development will be integrated with other subjects.
Science:
· Children observe the water evaporating from a glass jar and the residue left behind.
· Children observe water boiling.
· Children work with ice – freezing in different shapes and melting it.
· Children paint on a blackboard with wet brushes, sponges and rags. Children make wet footprints on a dry footpath.
English:
· Read different picture books regarding rain or water. Eg, Rain by Peter Spier.
· Learn songs such as – ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’, ‘It’s Raining, It’s Pouring’, and ‘Rain, Rain Go Away’.
· Learn rhymes/chants such as – ‘Pitter, Patter’, ‘I’m a little teapot’, and ‘Little Raindrops’.
· Children taste different states of water – cold, warm, ice, etc and describe what it is like.
· Children listen carefully and role play a water sport as they move to and from group times.
Health & Physical Education:
· Children make popsicles with fresh fruit juice.
· Play the game ‘Musical Puddles’.
· Play the game ‘Jump the Creek’.
· Investigate how much water a human should drink in a day.
The Arts – Art, Music and Drama:
· Dress up day. Students come dressed in rainy day clothes and bring a gold coin donation. Money raised can go to a drought relief fund.
· Children create a rain and cloud collage.
· Design a poster encouraging people to save water, eg: take a short shower.
· Students make raindrops and then hang them around the room.
· Children make boats from paper, wood, leaves, shells, matchboxes, etc.
· Children dramatise a rainstorm.
· Children draw a dry landscape with coloured chalk and then decorate the page with drops of water from an eye dropper or squeeze bottle.
Mathematics:
· Students draw a plan to build canals, bridges, dams, a car wash, fire stations and houses. Then students construct them using blocks.
· Measure the rainfall in a transparent tube or gauge over a certain period of time.
· Put out a water trough for children to experiment with pouring and measuring volume.
· Students take home a survey, regarding water use and saving in the home. Parents help fill it out and students bring back to class, to graph and compare results.
· Adding and subtracting buckets of water. Eg, it rains and I fill 5 buckets of water, I use 2 buckets when I shower, how many left? Students will draw and find result of 3.
These are extra ideas for teachers to intergrate the topic of water into other areas of the curriculum: